Motel 6 employees in Phoenix are reportedly tipping off ICE

Employees at two Motel 6 locations in Phoenix, Ariz., are reportedly tipping off the Immigration and Customs Enforcement about undocumented guests, it has been reported.

Court records obtained by the Phoenix New Times revealed ICE agents made at least 20 arrests at two Motel 6 locations in primarily Latino neighborhoods from February and August.

One clerk told the New Times, “We send a report every morning to ICE — all the names of everybody that comes in. Every morning at about 5 o’clock, we do the audit and we push a button and it sends it to ICE.”

In many cases, ICE agents would knock on people’s doors and ask permission to enter without a search warrant, according to court documents cited by the New Times.

While Yasmeen Pitts O’Keef, a spokesperson for ICE, would not confirm whether the agency had received tips from the motels or guests lists, she suggested the “knock and talks” were routine procedure.